gx_saurav said:oooooo...I so wanna kick HiH arse for his lame claim of Non-Existant Vista upgrades
Must resist kicking the arse of ignorant fanboys![]()
iMav said:ya no upgrade options and 98 should support dx 10 ... hell why only dx 10 t shud also support dx 10.1 ... aint i right HiH
Are you even reading what I'm writing? did you even try doing a google on Alky Project?
And please don't get me started on the emergence of Dx10.1 and me needing to get a new card even before 3 months since I got it for it to work at the best
chesss said:oh sleepy mods how abt waking and closing this lame thread?
gx_saurav said:Where did u got the info that DirectX 10.1 needs a new graphics card?
iMav said:prakash im still awaitng an answer to my question on who is a monopoly
The_Devil_Himself said:ALl they are trying to say iMav is that by making DX10 exclusive to vista M$ people are forcing people to upgrade from XP to VISTA.If it was not for DX10 vista would not have sold 10% of what it is selling now.Thats why they made it vista exclusive.
BTW the thread is going great with all the good views and still better counter-views.
The_Devil_Himself said:ALl they are trying to say iMav is that by making DX10 exclusive to vista M$ people are forcing people to upgrade from XP to VISTA.If it was not for DX10 vista would not have sold 10% of what it is selling now.Thats why they made it vista exclusive.
It requires a new graphics card to run at it's full potential, it is only "compatible" with existing DX10 cards,
gx_saurav said:Do you have a problem in understanding technical aspects of OS? Do u know how an OS works & why can't DX 10 be back ported to XP?
I can't explain anything to u, I give up, is it very hard to read the last page where I mentioned why DX 10 cannot be ported to XP.The_Devil_Himself said:Seriously I am finding it hard to understand why can't Dx10 be implemented in XP inspite of having good knowledge of how a OS work.
gx_saurav said:Do you have a problem in understanding technical aspects of OS? Do u know how an OS works & why can't DX 10 be back ported to XP?
Enough of explaining, no matter how much I try to teach something, idiots can't listen & read the explanation at last page.
Many gamers have been upset that the latest version of Microsoft's DirectX software and drivers, DirectX10, requires Windows Vista in order to run. Microsoft has argued that because DirectX10 was such a massive redesign of the overall driver model, it was not possible to retrofit it to run on Windows XP. One of the arguments supporting this was the fact that DirectX10 required graphics memory to be virtualizable—that is, swappable for system RAM if the on-board video card RAM became full.
However, NVIDIA has had difficulty making virtualization work on their Vista graphics drivers, so Microsoft has now made GPU virtualization optional for DX10. Charlie Demerjian over at the Inquirer is arguing that this means there is no valid technical reason why DirectX10 couldn't be back-ported to Windows XP.
Of course, there was never a reason that implementing DirectX10 on XP was technically impossible, just that Microsoft felt that the engineering and testing effort to retrofit the new driver model to the old operating system was more than the company was willing to expend, particularly as DirectX10 was touted as one of the major benefits of upgrading to Windows Vista. However, the PC gaming market has been slow to embrace Vista and so Microsoft may have to reconsider this decision in the future.
Source: Here
gx_saurav said:R U a DirectX developer? no seriously if u r have a look at the SDK & what will DX 10.1 bring to table. 99.9999999999% Features of DX 10.1 are same with DX 10. The only change is in efficiency & how work is done. There is no quality difference between DX 10 & DX 10.1, its only how the code is executed bringing more efficiency
in a way yes!The_Devil_Himself said:OMG iMav wont let me become a pope..lols
Ok you are saying that M$ developed DX10 then they realized that DX10 can't be implemented in XP so they made windows VISTA.And since nobody would have purchased just XP+DX10 support so they also added some eyecandy.Is this what are you trying to say?
yep, its not that MS can't backport dx10 to XP; its that they DON'T want to! and since MS is out there to do business, i don't think anything is wrong with that. from a business point of view, i support this. from a customer's point of view i don't.gx_saurav said:Plz read the conversation between me & IRD on the previous page about this Porject first.